Open AccessA preliminary study of tourists and vendors perception on the development of tourism souvenirs using natural dye from plants
Author(s) -
Norhafiza Hashim,
Nur Atika Salleh,
N A Norazlimi,
Aulia Rahman,
Furzani Pa’ee
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/736/1/012020
Subject(s) - mordant , natural dye , geography , tourism , lawsonia inermis , advertising , waterfall , business , dyeing , pulp and paper industry , engineering , traditional medicine , archaeology , medicine , chemistry , organic chemistry
The souvenir industry encompasses both handmade and massive scale productions. Production of coloured textiles becomes one of the basic technologies in human civilization. Based on the traditional knowledge of Temuan community lived in Taman Negara Johor Gunung Ledang, this research aims to develop souvenir products with t-shirts by adding natural color from Curcuma longa and Lawsonia inermis Linn. In order to develop the products, some steps were taken into account included the selection of plants part, extraction method, selection of mordant and technique used, and dyeing process. The color of aqueous extraction from C. longa and L. inermis were deep yellow and deep red, respectively. However, the color obtained on the t-shirts was slightly different. The perception of vendors and tourists in Taman Negara Johor Gunung Ledang (Waterfall), Tangkak, Johor towards developed souvenir using natural dye from plants are done through random survey session by distributing the questionnaire to the 122 respondents. 120 (98.4%) respondents reacted positively towards the souvenirs developed from natural plants based dye.